Monday, February 08, 2010

Texas Two Step

Further on the race in the 5th District for the Texas State Board of Education, I heard from a candidate for the Democratic nomination:

I agree that Tim Tuggey does have experience...as a lawyer and a lobbyist. He's an intelligent man but he's not an educator. I believe that we need to bring more educators to the State Board of Education, which is why I'm running in District 5.

That would be Dr. Rebecca Bell-Metereau, a Professor of English and Film at Texas State University. There's a concept! An actual educator on a board of education!

While almost anyone, including Tuggey, would be better than Ken Mercer, it would obviously be better yet to have someone with actual training and experience in education.

She is certainly way more qualified that the current "group of eight". But what is her stance on teaching evolution? There's no mention of her views on evolution v creationism on her site. I can imagine that she doesn't want to broadcast it if she supports the teaching of evolution.

She wants to stop the micromanaging of the curriculum being undertaken by the current board, but does this include reinstating the State standards for the teaching of evolution and the original choices for biology texts that were rejected by the current board?

About Me

John (catshark) Pieret is a professional loudmouth and troublemaker with an abiding interest in preventing creationist promotion of ignorance in public education. He once could be frequently found wasting his and others' time in the usenet group "talk.origins" but times change.
He was also the editor of the resource known as "The Quote Mine Project" at the Talk Origins Archive.